Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-05-13
FASHION NOTES.

Real amber necklaces are very much
worn with evening toilets.
Fashion has decreed positively that
| young girls must wear .bonnets,
A new shape in hats is very large, with
curled, shallow brim and high crown.
1t is modelled on those worn by the Span
ish women about Seville.
Fashionable rustic fower-pins consist
of sprays of roses, daises or other popu-
| lar flowers, with leaves of chased green
gold and petals of yellow gold in the
same finish, each twined around one or
too smooth polished twigs.
Dark blue sateens and other cotton
goods will be worn all Summer, but be-
fore purchasing dark blue dress of any
sort 1t Is wise to see to it that the dye is
fast. This can be done by rubbing the
blue material on bit of white linen-a
packet hankerchief for example. If the
color comes off, on no account purchase.
Black lace dresses are to be worn this
summer, but the black lace is not to be
the limitation Chantilly, as in past sea-
sons, but the silk Spanish lace or silk
blonde, with large flowers, which comes
in wide founces, and not as lace-net by
made up over red or black satin, as here
tofore, but over willow-green taffetas or
shrimp pink faille.
Quite q revolution is now taking place
ia ladies undergarments, which are now
made of the finest cambria Imaginable,
dotted with small designs, such as horse
shoes, tr0foils, hearts, cupids, etc, in
scarlet or sevres blue. A narrow edging
| &c 4
ming with the exception of a narrow
white ribbon, edged with scarlet or blue,
which is run through snail holes bOrdered
with buttonhole stitch.
Paris sun umbrellas are costly luxaries
this Spring. They are made of embroid-
cred silk tulle made up over satin, and
have handles in antique Dresden aud
Seyres china. One of the prettiest ones
is in ecru silk gauze, embroidered with
clusters of corntiowers in colored floss
silks, and made up over pale blue taffeta.
1t is bordered around the edge with a
rutf1e of geuze, striped with narrow rib
bon.
Hand braiding i'll rich elaborate pat
terms is feature of new Spring coats.
Wide, fiat black braids are combined with
narrow black Russia braid in variety of
designs. A short coat of electric blue la
dies cloth was shown. 1t was ornamented
with black Russia braid in a succession
of circlets in imitation of the braiding on
a French DolOnels army coat. This coat
fitted smoothly at the back, but flowed
loose in front, being simply caught at the
throat. A faw1- -colored coat of "scour-
ing" cloth was braided with black and
gold; this braiding extended up and down
the darts, across the collar and down the
fronts and up the outer seams of the
sleeve.
The very newest thing in gloves are the
Suede mou-quetaiae in OK blood red, with
fancy heavy stitching. Tans, heliottope,
all grey AID drab shades are still favored,
but black kid with colorsd stitchings,
white and heliotroPe tints, are considered
very tony. Suede gloves are also worn,
and all the newest gloves have the wide,
heavy stitching on the back in two, and
sometimes three cOlors. Green shades
are bought out in many tints, and pecu-
liar green, something of the green apple
order, has heavy stitching on the back
in yellow. A lovely brown shade has a
center stitching of red silk outlined with
old gold. Dressed kid gloves are again
fashionable, come heavily stitched and
arc buttoned, or fastened with very close
hook and extremely fine cord.